Vodka VS Gin, what do you prefer?

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After not having vodka for years and years, we were given a bottle of Grey Goose as a gift and I decided to try it. It's nice and smooth! Nothing like the gross Smirnoff I remember having as a student many moons ago.

Gin is everywhere these days - who still drinks vodka, and which one do you like?

Vodka cranberry is my go-to drink.

I couldn't even tell you what vodka tastes like. It's been years since I drank it as it makes me limbs really sore. Like heavy and all achey so I have to avoid it.
I love gin though, whether is plain or a liquor. There's a small batch gin company near me and their gin is just delicious!

Definitely vodka. Gin makes me melancholy and sad.

Vodka my all time fave is also Bison grass along with Grey Goose, but think it more depends on what you have with it. A good vodka left in the freezer should be smooth to drink (as a shot) and never freeze.

Gin, god I have tried so many not keen on the very fruity ones but good old Hendricks (summer solstice is very nice). Tried many of the Japanese gins and although Roku is nice I really like Etsu. Not a fan of German gins like Monkey 47, god that was awful.

Poetic Licence have some interesting offerings, I really like the bathtub gin. Been through a lot of small batch gins, like Lake District Gin and Durham Distillery, not for me.

Gin. Botanist or Plymouth for martinis, and a good London Dry like Tanqueray or Sipsmith for a G&T (where it needs to hold up against the flavour of the tonic).

Vodka feels a bit less interesting to me, unless it is deliberately flavoured the flavours are so subtle you don’t really get them coming through in cocktails, it is more of an alcohol delivery system!

Always interesting when people say a particular drink has a particular effect on them (like making them sad, or violent). That’s all down to mental associations/expectations.

Alcohol is just alcohol, whether it’s coming from Bollinger, Bailey’s or round of Tequila slammers - the only effect it has is how much of it you drink.

Everything else is just flavouring, and no one has ever been able to show that the flavourings have an effect on anything but the taste (and possibly on your hangover if you overdo it).

The fact you particularly want to hit someone, or cry, or both (!) when you drink gin, or vodka or whatever is down to what you think it will do to you, and the environment you drink it in.

Smirrnoff is still my go to vodka for mixing with! Don't think Grey Goose is worth the price tag. Love the Ciroc bottles and flavours but not keen on the original one. Absolute is very drinkable too but prefer Smirrnoff taste. There is only one vodka I will drink straight (Tanqueray Sterling), but it is not widely available.

A good vodka left in the freezer should be smooth to drink (as a shot) and never freeze.

Does any vodka freeze in a home freezer? I thought that was just down to ABV % not quality?